About Cadwalader

At Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, we put over 225 years of legal experience and innovation to work for you today. As one of the world's leading advisors to corporations and financial institutions, we have earned a reputation for crafting innovative business and financial solutions and developing precedent-setting legal strategies to achieve our clients' goals. Find out what makes us different.

We stand out from our competition because we help you stand out from yours.

We are in the business of delivering results so the truest measure of our success is the success of our clients. By maintaining this focus, we help them to create and launch groundbreaking products, services, concepts and deals and to protect their interests.

Practice

With more than 350 attorneys in offices around the world, clients come to Cadwalader for our ability to handle groundbreaking transactions, complex litigation and novel issues arising in emerging areas of law. Our legacy of crafting innovative business and financial solutions continues today with our work on the most important transactions, disputes, and investigations.

News

Cadwalader attorneys are often called upon to comment on business, financial, political and legal developments around the world as well as on the implications of big deals, noteworthy cases, community news, and proposed legislation.

Breaking new ground.

From commenting on pressing legal and policy issues to explaining the implications of big deals and important court decision for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, as well as a host of other leading news outlets, trade publications, and wire services our attorneys are sought out for their views and perspectives.

Resources

Cadwalader regularly publishes informative and educational materials, including newsletters and news alerts on a range of topics. Our portfolio also includes articles, industry programs, seminars, conferences, and videos.

From explanatory memoranda to pinpointed analysis, we provide our clients and friends with practical guidance in a variety of formats to help them to understand complex issues and make informed decisions about their businesses.

Careers

Cadwalader is a community of talented and driven individuals committed to excellence and innovation. Across departments, offices and borders, we share the common goal of providing world-class client service through the development of a culture that fosters diversity, collaboration and professional growth.

Joshua P. Arnold

Joshua Arnold represents domestic and international financial institutions and other public and privately-held corporations and their officers and directors involved in complex commercial litigation. Josh has helped clients resolve contractual disputes involving commercial mortgage-backed securities and other structured products, bankruptcy matters, class actions, shareholder derivative and merger-related litigations and other complex business litigation matters in all phases of litigation proceedings, from the pleading stage through trial and appeal, in a variety of federal and state courts across the country.

Recognized by the New York State Bar Association for his strong commitment to pro bono work, Josh is actively involved in a wide range of matters, including the representation of a federal death row inmate challenging his criminal conviction and death sentence; a private not-for-profit educational and cultural New York City institution against a civil rights tort claim; and a victim of domestic abuse seeking asylum under United States immigration laws. In addition, Josh develops and presents continuing legal education (CLE) programs for clients and other attorneys on various topics, including ethics and privilege issues and civil procedural rules and best practices with respect to both electronic and traditional discovery.

Josh received a Bachelor of Arts, with Distinction and as an Honors Division Scholar, from Indiana University in 2001. He earned his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2008, where he served an externship at the United States Federal Public Defender’s Office in Newark, N.J., participated in multiple interscholastic moot court competitions and was recognized as the 2008 Outstanding Practitioner for his work at the Center for Social Justice Civil Litigation Clinic. Josh is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Josh has played a significant role in a variety of corporate, securities and other complex commercial litigations. His most recent representative engagements include:

Bank of America, N.A. in multiple federal court actions across the country relating to the issuance of commercial mortgage-backed securities involving more than 1,000 commercial real estate loans worth over $1 billion originated by Bank of America or its subsidiaries.

Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. and certain of its officers and directors in litigation challenging its merger with another large pharmaceutical company, in which the plaintiffs alleged breaches of fiduciary duty and violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

A real estate investment firm in litigation commenced by a junior loan participant in connection with a contemplated sale of the loan.

Vertis Communications, Inc. and certain of its affiliates in Chapter 11 cases pending in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Joshua Arnold represents domestic and international financial institutions and other public and privately-held corporations and their officers and directors involved in complex commercial litigation. Josh has helped clients resolve contractual disputes involving commercial mortgage-backed securities and other structured products, bankruptcy matters, class actions, shareholder derivative and merger-related litigations and other complex business litigation matters in all phases of litigation proceedings, from the pleading stage through trial and appeal, in a variety of federal and state courts across the country.

Recognized by the New York State Bar Association for his strong commitment to pro bono work, Josh is actively involved in a wide range of matters, including the representation of a federal death row inmate challenging his criminal conviction and death sentence; a private not-for-profit educational and cultural New York City institution against a civil rights tort claim; and a victim of domestic abuse seeking asylum under United States immigration laws. In addition, Josh develops and presents continuing legal education (CLE) programs for clients and other attorneys on various topics, including ethics and privilege issues and civil procedural rules and best practices with respect to both electronic and traditional discovery.

Josh received a Bachelor of Arts, with Distinction and as an Honors Division Scholar, from Indiana University in 2001. He earned his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2008, where he served an externship at the United States Federal Public Defender’s Office in Newark, N.J., participated in multiple interscholastic moot court competitions and was recognized as the 2008 Outstanding Practitioner for his work at the Center for Social Justice Civil Litigation Clinic. Josh is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Experience

Josh has played a significant role in a variety of corporate, securities and other complex commercial litigations. His most recent representative engagements include:

Bank of America, N.A. in multiple federal court actions across the country relating to the issuance of commercial mortgage-backed securities involving more than 1,000 commercial real estate loans worth over $1 billion originated by Bank of America or its subsidiaries.

Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. and certain of its officers and directors in litigation challenging its merger with another large pharmaceutical company, in which the plaintiffs alleged breaches of fiduciary duty and violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

A real estate investment firm in litigation commenced by a junior loan participant in connection with a contemplated sale of the loan.

Vertis Communications, Inc. and certain of its affiliates in Chapter 11 cases pending in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.